DigiPaws: Reclaim Your Life

DigiPaws is an open-source Android productivity utility designed to help users reduce screen addiction by regulating app usage through a gamified experience. The application offers three distinct modes—Easy, Adventure, and Hard—each with unique features and challenges to promote healthy screen time habits.

Caution

This app may be discontinued very soon due to lack of funds (I am an indie developer who codes on phone). Donate

Features

• Three Unique Modes: Tailor your screen usage experience with Easy, Adventure, and Hard modes.
• Gamified Challenges: Earn DigiCoins through quests like walking, and use them to unlock app usage.
• Open Source: Fully transparent and free to use, with the source code available for community contributions.
• Productivity Enhancement: Helps build healthier digital habits and reduce screen addiction.
• Versatile Blockers: Take control of your digital environment by blocking apps, keywords, and unwanted in-app screens (e.g., YouTube shorts, comments).
• Open Api: Turn your existing application into a digipaws quest!! Learn More

Modes

Easy Mode

In Easy Mode, DigiPaws provides gentle reminders to help you manage your screen time. When you attempt to access a blocked app, a warning screen appears. If you choose to proceed, a cooldown period starts. After the cooldown, another warning is displayed to remind you of your usage.

Adventure Mode

Adventure Mode introduces a gamified experience to control screen time. To access a blocked app, you need DigiCoins. These can be earned by completing quests such as a quick 1 km walk. Each DigiCoin grants 20 minutes of usage time for any blocked app, encouraging physical activity and mindful screen use.

Quests

1. Touch Grass - Displace yourself by 1 km.
2. 40x Squats - Perform 40 reps of squats in any sets. Verified using AI.
3. 40x Pushups - Perform 40 reps of pushups in any sets. Verified using AI.
4. Focus Quest - Apply the 20/60 study rule: Digipaws blocks all unnecessary applications except basic apps like calling and SMS.
5. Open API - See the list of applications using our quest API.

Hard Mode

Hard Mode offers the most stringent control over app usage. In this mode, when you try to open a blocked app, the back button is automatically pressed without any warning or cooldown, preventing access entirely.

Usage

1. Launch DigiPaws on your Android device.
2. Provide all necessary permissions like Accessibility service, Notification, Draw over other apps etc
3. Choose your preferred mode: Easy, Adventure, or Hard.
4. Configure the apps and views you want to block and set your preferences.
5. Start using your device with DigiPaws managing your screen time.

Caution

This app relies exclusively on accessibility services to function. Because it requires sensitive permissions, please avoid downloading it from untrusted sources.

ToDo

• Block reels
• Block comments
• Block explicit context
• App blockers
• Focus Quest
• Geoblocker (basically block things when a certain area is entered like workplace)
• Customisable warning screen
• Block cusomtom user defined keywords
• Modular and downloadable view blockers
• Api for other developers to transform their existing apps into digipaw quests!
• expand the app to ios and desktops.

Thanks

• Osmdroid : Mapview used in Quest "TouchGrass"
• Digital Wellbeing Experiments Toolkit : some ideas ig, basically the geoblocker one.
• Undraw : illustrations on intro page
• Special thanks to all the premium apps on the Play Store that inspired me to create a free and open-source alternative. imagine making money out of miserable people.
• Ml Kit QuickStart : ML models and multiple classes were used from this repository.

Installation

To install DigiPaws:

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/nethical6/digi-paws.git

2. Open the project in Android Studio.
3. Build and run the app on your Android device.

Alternatively, you can download the latest release from the Releases page and install the APK on your device.

Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community! If you'd like to contribute, please follow these steps:

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create a new branch for your feature or bugfix.

   git checkout -b feature/your-feature-name

3. Commit your changes.

   git commit -m "Add some feature"

4. Push to the branch.

   git push origin feature/your-feature-name

5. Create a new Pull Request.

Please ensure your code adheres to our coding standards and includes relevant tests.

HELP REQUIRED!!

1. Implementing material ui inside the warning overlay and also making it customisable.
2. Expanding the list of explict keywords
3. Expanding the list of Blocked views so that more apps can be supported. You can scrape the view ids of a screen with the help of Developer Assistant. Remeber that these view ids must be unique and only present on the screen to block!!

License

DigiPaws is licensed under the GNU License. You are free to use, modify, and distribute this software in accordance with the license.

Contact

For questions, suggestions, or feedback, please open an issue on the GitHub repository or contact me at:

1. Discord: @nethical
2. Telegram: @nethicalps

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Thank you for using DigiPaws! Together, we can create healthier digital habits.